Place and Phenomenology

Janet Donohoe is Dean of the Honors College and Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Remembering Places (2014).Contributors: Anne Buttimer, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland; John Cameron, formerly of University of Tasmania, Australia; Patricia Glazebrook, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Washington State University, USA; James Hatley, Professor of Environmental Studies, Salisbury University, USA; Kirsten Jacobson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine, USA; Bruce Janz, Professor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, USA; Irene Klaver, Director of the Philosophy of Water Project and Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas, USA; Adam Konopka, Besl Chair of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA; Jonathan Maskit, Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University, USA; Bob Mugerauer, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Departments of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, and adjunct in Landscape Architecture and Anthropology, University of Washington, USA; Edward Relph, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada; Bob Sandmeyer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and member of Environmental and Sustainability Studies faculty, University of Kentucky, USA; David Seamon, Professor of Architecture, Kansas State University, USA; Ingrid Stefanovic, Dean of the Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University, Canada; David Wood, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, USA

The very possibility of appearance – and especially of that fundamental mode of appearance that is the subject of phenomenology – is inextricably bound to place. In Place and Phenomenology Janet Donohoe has assembled a selection of essays by leading figures in the field that offers an excellent introduction to the phenomenological inquiry into place as well as a set of concentrated place-oriented phenomenological studies. The volume will be an important contribution to the growing body of literature on place and to new approaches in phenomenology.

• Introduction, Janet Donohoe / Part I: Place and the Existential / 1. The Openness of Places, Edward Relph / 2. The Double Gift—Place and Identity, Robert Mugerauer / 3. The Idea of an Existential Ecology, Bob Sandmeyer / Part II: Sacred Places / 4. Nature, Place, and the Sacred, Anne Buttimer / 5. From the Land Itself: The Himalayas as Sacred Landscape, John Cameron / 6. The Ambiguity of “Sacred Space”: Superabundance, Contestation and Unpredictability at the Earthworks of Newark, Ohio, Lindsay Jones / Part III: Place, Embodiment, and Home / 7. The Living Arena of Existential Health: Space, Autonomy, and Embodiment, Kirsten Jacobson / 8. Environed Embodiment and Geometric Space, Adam Konopka / 9. Nature as Home: A Gendered Phenomenology of Place, Trish Glazebrook / Part IV: Places Rediscovered / 10. Intraterrestrials: Landing Sites, David Wood / 11. Indeterminacy in Place: Rivers as Bridge and Meandering as Metaphor, Irene J. Klaver / 12. The Lifeworld, Transit, and Difference, Jonathan Maskit / Part V: Place